At the National Railway Museum on an over cast bank holiday Monday
Incredible that this icon of railway steam speed records is still running at 100+ years.
City of Truro was timed at 8.8 seconds between two quarter-mile posts whilst hauling the "Ocean Mails" special from Plymouth to London Paddington on 9 May 1904. This timing was recorded from the train by Charles Rous-Marten, who wrote for The Railway Magazine and other journals. If exact (Rous-Marten's stopwatch read in multiples of 1/5 second), this time would correspond to a speed of 102.3 mph (164.6 km/h), while 9 seconds would correspond to exactly 100 mph.
My thanks to Wikepedia for the above note. The Video is mine ad was taken today as the rain just started
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